Wednesday, September 18, 2013

As over in Germany Longford-born Marguerite Donlon launches her 4th International Dance Festival n.o.w. dance saar with a world première of her newest choreography,
»Wings« on Thursday, 3rd of October 2013
at the theatre tent in front of the Saarland State Theatre - listen back here to my contribution to RTE Sunday Miscellany, "Comhtharluint Iontach", broadcast last Sunday, about being randomly thrown together with this lrish dance prodigy at Irish College in Colaiste Columba, An Ceathru Rua, at the tender age of twelve, many moons ago!

Click here to listen - it's the last story on the programme:

http://www.rte.ie/radio1/sunday-miscellany/

Sunday Miscellany 15 September 2013

New short essays:
Kathleen Lynn by Art Ó Súilleabháin
Leonard Cohen by Roslyn Dee
Sister, sister by Lucy Montague Moffatt
Pilgrimage to Hampstead by Jack HarteComhtharlúint Iontach / A Lovely Coincidence by Deirdre MulrooneyMusic:
Courante from Partita No. 4 in D Major by Johann Sebastian Bach performed by Glenn Gould (piano)
I’m Your Man by Leonard Cohen
Romance Larghetto from Horn Concerto No 1 in E Flat Major by Wolfgang
Amadeus Mozart performed by Barry Tuckwell ( French Horn) with the
English Chamber Orchestra
Song Without words Opus 109 by Felix Mendelssohn performed by Antonio Meneses (cello) and Gerard Wyss ( piano )

I'm delighted that 1943 - A Dance Odyssey has been selected to be screened alongside greats like "Pina" and "NY Export: Opus Jazz" in "An Evening of Dance" at Druid Lane Theatre, Druid Lane, Galway on Culture Night - September 20th, 2013 from 6.00pm - 10.00pm

Galway Dance Project was established
in 2011 to support the development of dance in Galway. On Culture Night
it will present a series of free dance showings and screenings in an
informal atmosphere at Druid’s beautiful theatre. Beginning at 6pm, a
number of Galway’s contemporary dance artists will perform excerpts of
work in development where audience members will be invited to come and
go as they please, ask questions or give feedback on the work.

Dancers on the night will include Genevieve Ryan, Berni Divilly,
Katarzyna Voetter, Daniel Howe and Caoilfhionn De Bhaldraithe with music
by Mr. Ebby. The showings will begin at 6pm and run until 7.30pm and
run again from 8pm until 9.30pm. This is a perfect opportunity to
develop a greater interest and understanding in contemporary dance
practices and performance as well as a greater intimacy with the Galway
based dance community.

As part of the evening, a reception will also be hosted by Galway
Dance Project to announce its forthcoming programme running September to
December 2013. Refreshments will be provided in the foyer of Druid Lane
Theatre and attendees can enjoy a glass of wine together with their
dance experience.

Also on the night, a series of local, national and international dance films will be screened Backstage at Druid Lane Theatre.

The films: 6pm Pina is a tribute to choreographer, Pina Bausch, in which her dancers perform her most famous creations. 8pm: NY Export:Opus Jazz
is a vibrant new film adaptation of a classic work, conceived by New
York City Ballet soloists Ellen Bar and Sean Suozzi. shot in visually
dynamic locations around New York City and set to an evocative jazz
score, the ballet follows the daily lives of disaffected urban youth.
Blending jazz and ballroom dancing with Latin, African and American
rhythms, it is a masterpiece of dance, with a powerfully expressive,
sexy and contemporary style.

9pm: 1943 – A Dance Odyssey explores a forgotten reel of film by Irish film industry founder Liam O Laoighaire showing a mysterious modern dancer teaching her tiny pupils in her Harcourt Street studio and dancing freely in the open air in his 1943 “Dance School”. Seventy years on, Deirdre Mulrooney’s documentary discovers who were these tiny dancers and where did the dance of life take them?

Finally at 9.30pm: Siul,
piece produced and created by Galway based dancer, Berni Divilly,
considers the walk of survival and transcendence across time and space.